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The narrator explains that Akaky got his name because it was the "least ridiculous" of the names that his godparents suggested to his mother when he was a baby. Other than just sounding funny, his name could be attributed to St....

Many workers in czarist Russia were serfs, laborers bound to the farmland which they worked. Without permission of the landowner, they could not leave the land or get married. They were virtual slaves. In "The Cloak," Petrovitch somehow...